which is now georgetown university. in this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of enslavement to uncovering the harling story of the catholic church in the united states. rachel is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and race relations as a contributing writer for the new york times. her articles about georgetown university's roots in slavery touched off a national conversation about america's universities and their ties to this painful period in history. her work has been supported by the national endowment for humanities, the ford foundation, the leon levy center for biography, the biographers international organization, among others. as a correspondent for the times, she reported from russia, cuba, guatemala and southern africa. and covered emigration and presidential politics and motion -- michelle obama and her role in the white house. she is the author of american tapestry, the story of the bl

which is now georgetown university. in this groundbreaking account, professor rachel swarns follows one family for nearly 2 centuries of indentured servitude and and pavement to uncover the harrowing origins tory of the catholic church and the united dates. rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate assessor of journalism at new york university writing about race and race relations is a contributing writer for the new york times. for articles about georgetown university's roots and slavery touched off a series about painful ties to this section of history. an endowment for the humanities, the leon levy center for biography, the biographers international organization among others. as a correspondent for the times, she reported from russia, cuba, guatemala, and a southern africa, covering immigration and presidential politics, and michelle obama and her role in the obama white house. she is the author of american tapestry, the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama and the author o

and so he reached out to a faculty member at georgetown, as i mentioned, georgetown had already been looking into this and trying to think about its own history and slavery and how to wrestle with it. and he said, okay, well, what happened to their descendants? and he was told they all died. and he said they all died like nearly 300 people. they all died. no descendants. and that seemed implausible to him. there were certainly other people in the working group at georgetown who thought there were descendants. but this guy said there weren't. and so this guy, richard cellini, said to himself, that makes up no sense. and richard was someone he's a white guy, ceo of a tech company, a republican guy who had not been involved in racial justice issues in any way before, but he loved georgetown. and he said, you know, like, i think we kind of oh, you, you know, something to these people. we the existence is connected to these people. and so he hired a team of genealogists who started digging and trying to find descendants. and then he reached out to a colleague of mine at the times who was

well, as michelle, i was in georgetown. at georgetown.in 2015, and i saw firsthand the threat that these really posed to society and why they're not going away any time. i'll tell you a few stories from my time on campus to illustrate the point student government at is a huge, huge deal. this college is filled with people who all think they're going to be president one day. they're very narcissistic, a little deranged, if you ask me. but alas, that is that's of the student population there. they pour everything into student government campaign campaigns. i mean, this was a four month affair on campus. everybody was obsessed with following all of the polling and the speeches. and people would go to the debates it was crazy. and to be fair, bill clinton obviously a former president, got his start, a member of the student government at georgetown. condÉ, another prominent alumni who is in student government. oklahoma, frank keating and other notable alumni were all involved in that. but during the 2015 student body president election, there

sale organized by catholic priests that was set up to save georgetown. and it's my great honestly that she didn't delete the email because after all. she was intrigued but uncertain. this was before the 1619 project in a 19th century slave sale. was that even a story she remembered read my book about michelle obama's ancestors and sent the email to me and i knew immediately that it was a story my work on michelle obama's family allowed me to explore how shaped american families and i could see immediately that this would be what felt like the next for me exploring how slavery shaped american institution. so i called this alum right away. i knew it was a story, but i was also flabbergasted. did catholic priests enslaved loved people? catholic priests bought and sold people. i happen to be black and catholic myself, and i had idea and it's not a surprise really that i had no idea. i grew up in new york the church i knew was a northern church, an immigrant church and enslaved people have largely left out of the story that is traditionally told about the ori

he is deeply committed to public service, as is exemplified in skwro*pblg *r georgetown -- in georgetown's credo, men and men for others. he's been unstinting in his support for ukraine. he has been ensuring scholarships for students from ukraine, and encouraging discussions to keep a public focus on what is happening in ukraine. so, please welcome president degioia. [applause] pres. degioia: thank you for bringing us together this afternoon and guiding the institute for women, peace and security and its work to promote women as catalysts for peace building. good afternoon. it's my privilege to be with all of you as we welcome the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska, for this special conversation. to the ukrainian delegation, to our ukrainian students, our distinguished guests, and the members of our georgetown community joining us this afternoon, thank you for your presence. over these past 19 months since the unprovoked full-scale russian invasion began, the impacts of this war have been i pheps. we have been witness to the displacement of children and their families from their homes,

we take you down to the georgetown institute for women, peace and security former secretary of state hillary clinton will honor several women for their efforts in pro-democracy efforts. live coverage on span two. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> please welcome to the stage georgetown institute for women, peace and security for the land. >> good morning and welcome to the 2023 award ceremony to honor women who have played an exceptional role of busy fluid peace and security. the words showcasing the difference women's peace building can make particularly at the local level, the aspect or route is to we are proud to mark the anniversary this year. you can find a great deal about the institute on our website. we are thrilled to have his secretary, former secretary state of the clinton with us. we are so grateful for her continuing support of the institute as honorary pounding chair. we are leaving with the rockefeller foundation coming up high level leaders. [applause] >> a special welcome to this core who has joi

[applause] >> this is my favorite georgetown tradition. ten years ago we started the tradition of having an iconic figure has made a profound difference in politics talk to the first-year class. we've had justice kagan. we had justice breyer. we had our own. but the person who appeared year after year was justice ginsburg. justice ginsburg her husband was on our faculty. she really cared so profoundly for this community. every year whenever we invited her, she would come. we decided to name this lecture series in her honor. so this year she spoke. and then the second year she got proctor and trent secretary of state clinton. i'm trying to think how do we keep up with this incredible tradition? we figured it out. the honorable speaker nancy pelosi. [applause] so she does not really need an introduction. fifty-second speaker of the house of representatives. she made history in 2007 when she was the first woman elected to serve as speaker then she made history again in 2009 when she regained the speakership the first person to do that in six

a graduate student he was true to georgetown law. it is an honor to be here with all of you i'm looking for my grandson liam i don't seem quite yet. he is a graduate of georgetown do we have three generations. but they'll to speak with under the auspices of the title of ruth gator ginsburg i was sharing some stories. they have been so wonderful i'm so proud of you. as that doesn't really count. won the prize. everybody wanted to be associated with her. i am saying one time there had to be more than 15 years ago she said to me at an event she came over to me, pulled me over and said because we love each other and we are such good friends i'm going to tell you something very personal. i do not want you to be afraid but it is that i have cancer i'm going to beat it don't worry about i'm going to beat it is going to be okay. i will be prayerful i will not be fearful but i'm glad you had all this confidence and she did beaded at that time. sometime after that i was on a plane and there she is ruth bader ginsburg. since we love each other

we appreciate your participation between georgetown and the associated press. that include -- concludes the second installment of our conversation series with contenders, stay tuned for the next candidate who will be taking time to talk about these important issues with us, and thank you for being with us here tonight. [applause]

to have this education at georgetown, you must have great confidence in what you bring to georgetown. what you will take from here and from each other. i'm in awe of you and i'm happy to have time to share thoughts with you. >> we talked about your why, why did you get into politics? speaker pelosi: my why, my husband paul, a georgetown grad, he took it to the limit. adorable. [laughter] in between abroad and all of that. here's the thing, we have these five children. rita knows this story so well because she's heard me say it so many times. my why was one in five children in america goes to sleep hungry at night. lives in poverty. i just couldn't stand that. i just could not stand that. i mean, i was raised in a family where we were told public service was a noble responsibility and we all had a responsibility to each other. it was a family that i was born in, that was devoutly catholic, proud of our italian american heritage, deeply patriotic, loving america. and in our case, staunchly democratic. the catholic and the democratic part keeping separation of church and state of course,

we appreciate your participation between georgetown and the associated press. that include -- concludes the second installment of our conversation series with contenders, stay tuned for the next candidate who will be taking time to talk about these important issues with us, and thank you for being with us here tonight. [applause] reduce the federal workforce and appeal existing tariffs. >> and now, please welcome governor asa hutchinson. [applause] >> thank you. it is so great

we appreciate your participation between georgetown and the associated press. that include -- concludes the second installment of our conversation series with contenders, stay tuned for the next candidate who will be taking time to talk about these important issues with us, and thank you for being with us here tonight. [applause] >> c-span's washington journal, li form involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy, from washington dc and across the country. coming up friday morning, our guests discuss the latest in the israel must count -- conflicts and the global fallout. then our next guest speaks on the role of congress in foreign policy. join the conversation live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile figure out, or online at c-span.org. >> the u.s. house remains without an elected spe and the vote posoned today. jim jordan met with the 22 republicans who voted against him, but reports indicate that they are standing firm in their po. in the meantime, a proposed reon to e acting spe

we'll stick with students here in georgetown. we have another question here in gason hall. >> hello, mr. vice president, my name is namir from azerbaijan. if you were elected into office what would your foreign policy be in regards to helping create change and peace in the norbono caraba region? vice president pence: it all starts with engagement and strength and it puts american values and interests in the forefront. and i honestly believe what i said earlier, if america is not leading the free world, the free world is not being led. if we're not marshaling the attention and focus on the free world we miss opportunities profoundly in that region and elsewhere. it will be one of engagement. i want to put alive this notion we have to choose between solving problems here at home and leading and engaging in the world. america can do both. we have done both. and we will do both again. we'll get our economy moving and secure our border, we can be a leader in energy in the world again. we can protect our liberties and strengthen our na

>> we have one more student from georgetown. >> i'm a student here at georgetown. my question is given your support for free trade, president trump from the transpacific partnership was a mistake and china dominating? if elected president would you follow this approach or consider with president biden while severing ties? [indiscernible] >> one of the things that is so important, 11 countries, in the world's g.d.p. as well. president trump had allergic reaction to multi lateral trade deals and our countries in bottom of the question -- [indiscernible] having america lead on our terms which was part of our of the trade agreement that allowed us to have 149 parameters than create a path forward, i don't have a problem with multi lateral. giving anybody other than us a prime position to dictate japan and asian markets is a mistake. i don't know we should be in that deal, but which should be apart of leading the conversation on new trade agreements that improve access to the world's market for our companies because frankly, the world has access to our markets typically

julia a georgetown law student.versity and lauren cayle, a junior at american university. thank you so much for joining, again. julie, i will go right back to you. you have got these professors, they have no shame. they are making it very clear where they stand. what is your reaction to some of those comments that we just played? i think anybody in the current educational society we live in who sympathizes with hamas calls them militants and justified resistance is directly threatening the mental and physical well-being of jewish students on campus it's up to us to ask our universities to speak out and then when they refuse, to it's up to us to be able to seek legal representation if need be. i'm lucky i'm working with a project but our students don't feel safe. >> you know, michael, hamas is a terrorist organization i just wonder what the response would be if we had a professor that said they would stand with isis shouldn't we look at hamas the same way. >> when russia attacked ukraine there was almost universal su

my experience at georgetown was pretty good.rofessors had to work for a living before they teach and work for the white house and most i didn't know their politics. they receiver malik taylored my point of view and wanted to -- respected my point of view and i wanted to introduce ideas to me. i don't know if that exists anymore and something to say on this topic and this is not a political speech not running it r office. my dad left school in the eighth grade and my mom was woken up in the bed at 15 years old and told that guy down the street wants to marry you, you're going to marry him. she lost her versus frequency ginty and got pregnant with my cyst -- virginity and got pregnant my my sister on her wedding night. when she was 23 she was mistreated enough and she fled. she found my dad and he was mistreated by his wife in a way that was traumatic. she remained a alcohol and she remained emotionally disturbed from what she had gone through. by the 90s and living in 1969 single wide and using kerosene to heat our house and prob

neil: is it scary for georgetown, they have a different view of this. >> students at georgetown and other and that has made it more problematic. the first is professors are teaching a simplistic way to view the world, oh press versus low-pressure. that doesn't translate well when you go to real-world issues. the other issue is selection. admissions officers have prioritized social activism over merit and we see consequences of that in the campus environment we have today. neil: student activism and those who support israel or made that known from transcript or essays, would they have had a harder time if it shows up in your background? >> it's no secret admissions offices have deliberately prioritized some versions of social activism over others. we don't intend that community engagement isn't a great thing. it is. but often zealous activism at an early age of 17 when most students are applying for university, that is a proxy for intellectual in curiosity and misplaced confidence in your views such that when you enter the university level you tend to not change if solidified at an early a

note on dragon has never been this worried walking around campus at georgetown university. the past couple of weeks, you seem protests which launched into hateful tyrants. it's extremely unsettling to see the calls for one state with no jews. and it does even walk right by and right in front of us on campus, it takes a toll, but you have to show up and you have to do what you have to do. otherwise they, when it's it's what nolan has done is co phoned georgetown law site and this is going to boost fellow jewish student. the group wants to take a stand against what they describe as growing and just submitting an anti is ro rather raked in the us. the fear is mounting them on the palestinian american community to chicago. this little boy was killed and then the alleged hate crime authorities said 6 year old idea all for you me was attacked for be muslim. and the tensions over the conflict in the middle east lead to the killing beer ramadan. she now we works as an educational consultant in the palestinian american community. she would only talk to us in the part that she fears

note on drafting has never been this worried walking around campus at georgetown university. the past couple of weeks, you seem protests which launched into hateful tyrants. it's extremely unsettling to see the calls for one state with no jews. and it does even walk right by and right in front of jews on campus. it takes it to all, but you have to show up and you have to do what you have to do otherwise they, when it's it's what nolan has done is co phoned, georgetown law science is going to boost fellow jewish students. the group wants to take a stand against what they describe as growing antisemitic and anti is where a rather rig in the us. the fear is mounting them on the palestinian american community to chicago. this little boy was killed and then the alleged hate crime authorities said 6 year old idea all for you me was attacked for be muslim. and the tensions over the conflict in the middle east lead to the killing beer ramadan. she now we worked as an educational consultant in the palestinian american community. she would only talk to us in the park as she fears her o

let's bring it up that are in again, middle east professor, the georgetown university. let's just take the conversation sliding towards the lebanese area because in nothing yahoos press conference yesterday, when he was talking about her mouse, he said 90 percent of the funding comes from iran, or all it has cost associations with has below, who operates in southern lebanon. where these clashes all going on right now is a very delicate picture of how the situation can exacerbate a very short period of time if all the states act is not controlled in some shape or form. yeah, certainly, i mean there, there is this kind of fear this uh, idea that perhaps this could expand into some sort of regional conflict that would involve many other actors. we know the us is also ramped up its presence in the mediterranean and in across different states. in this region where it has a presence already, we know iran and certainly the language that's coming out of the leadership. there has been very much attempting to draw certain red lines that as far as what this means for goes up. but

and as well the georgetown americas institute over there. so using all the resources of georgetown university to tackle some really timely -- it's always timely but particularly seems more timely today, on issues related to children. so we're really pleaseeds to have you and now i'd like to also get into the last introduction and then we'll get into it a little bit here. i wanted you to hear from someone who has been on the front lines of war in ukraine and in their leadership of the student movement in ukraine. -- voluntarily joined the armed forces in ukraine in february of 20 2. he saw active duty in the kyiv region and after the deliberation of kyiv, he took part in the defense of car kyiv and later sent to the dan bass region and in 2023 was woulded bian artillery shell. today he's joined us as part of thank you crane newt movement. he served as the secretary of the student board of the national university of the kyiv academy. he's the co-founder and chair founder of the executive board of the student league and the executive board lead

these are people that are getting into georgetown law school. getting into harvard.getting into yale and they are spewing this kind of rhetoric towards us. it's anti-jew. it's anti-american, it's anti-democracy and it's hateful and it's spiteful. >> lawrence: michael, what do you think about the harvard association that is saying that the pro-hamas students need mental counseling, they need healthcare in a moment like this after the rhetoric that they have been spewing? >> well, lawrence, i think it's very disappointing truly to see. on one end basically untrue. untrue perception of the israeli palestine conflict. on the other end this is the kind of rhetoric encourages sentiment. in washington, d.c., again, those rallies that we have going on anti-israel sentiment, it's similar. they are not just calling for money just yet. >> lawrence: real quickly, lauren, what is your message for the professors, the leadership, these presidents, the school boards, what is your message to them about what's happening to the jewish students on campuses? >> i think that it is importa

he's an associate professor of middle east history at georgetown university and kata. i'm the we know that's been a steady stream of latest heading to the region. i'm curious about what you think the priorities on as well as seems to be so far at least that the priority has been to demonstrate unequivocal support for israel's campaign against the palestinians. anything that's been really the, the most unfortunate thing that we've seen from world leaders, and particularly at a time when the humanitarian catastrophe continues to unfold and gets compounded. i mean, we just saw this, this report coming in about the bombing of a market in the middle of the day, the last possible source of food. how does the small consent form data, right, exactly. and so we're, we're seeing, you know, so much of this, this horrific humanitarian catastrophe unfolding with a sort of willful blindness or a kind of inability to offer anything by in terms of, of restraint on the part of what is real, is doing over the last few hours i'm telling you and i have been talking about a lack of robust

um your fee will have to end if they are georgetown university professor charles compton, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. thank you so much for joining us today. steve. it's been my pleasure to join. so what's the bottom line beneath all this analysis, global strategy and us support for israel and ukraine, and russia testing the west and the role of non state actors beneath all of that are real people and real families. one of our colleagues here at alex's here of the bureau chief and gods have just lost 4 members of his family after and his really airstrikes hit. what is really official said was terrorist infrastructure? wild goose family had already fled more than gaza, as he is rarely said, warn people to do, but they were killed any way after fleeing south. this is real while has lost most of his family and there are thousands of other innocent people on both sides of this conflict who lost their families this month. yes, we should be thinking through policies and global crises and asking you how we got here. but sometimes it's just time to give our sincere condol

captain, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations professor of international affairs at georgetown university and author of the end of the american era, u. s. foreign policy and the geo politics of the 21st entry. dr. captions. thank you so much for joining us. this is a world and places in the world where american power used to matter. and i've just been reading your book again and wondering whether the contraction of america in the world is somehow creating these conditions. you know, i think there are 2 big develop and steve that are making world fuel policy terms, making the world feel like it's going upside down. one of them i think we saw coming and that is the diffusion of power, right? we used to live in a world dominated by the united states and its democratic partners that represented say, 75 percent of global g d, p. and we're now heading into the world in which power will be the center, in which the number one power in the world within a decade or so. it will probably be china, india, and may be number 2 in the news is climbing the ranks, brazil getting stronger and str

i'm from georgetown university here in casa abdullah. it feels like given the tensions and the rhetoric we've been hearing, this is really our need the beginning. yeah, exactly. i mean, i think, you know, we keep hearing that this is a war on gaza. i think we need to reframe this as a war on all the palestine. i mean everything that we're seeing guys in some ways of serving as a risk cover essentially for the broader stuff of land, the intimidation and attacks and harassment, and abuse and killings. with total impunity by settlers in the west bank. i mean this is part of a pattern that has existed for decades in terms of just the gradual shrinking of palestinians be able to live on their own land. most of that being confiscated by these subtler movements that are very much backed, subsidized, protected by the state by the military. and so in that sense, i think the violence, especially of the last few weeks, has to be seen as part of this broader pattern. what we're seeing is that there are a tax increase. give a nursing yahoo as far rig

note on drafting has never been this worried walking around campus at georgetown university. the past couple of weeks you seen protests which launched into hateful tyrants. it's extremely unsettling to see the calls for one state with no jews. and it does even walk right by and right in front of jews on campus. it takes it to all, but you have to show up and you have to do what you have to do otherwise they, when it's what nolan has done is co phoned, georgetown law scientists, this fellow jewish student. the group wants to take a stand against what they describe as growing antisemitic. and anti is ro rather raked in the us. the fear is mon, doing them on the palestinian american community to chicago. this little boy was killed and then the alleged hate crime authorities said 6 year old idea all for you me was a tag for be muslim. and the tensions over the conflict in the middle east lead to the killing beer ramadan. she now we worked as an educational consultant in the palestinian american community. she would only talk to us in the park that she fears her office may become